Cooperativas de trabalho no Brasil: alternativa ao desemprego ou fraude às garantias trabalhistas

Abstract

Workers cooperatives, even though created in France, in the industrial revolution, as a way of organizing personal working services, represent today an important issue in Brazilian labor law. With the decrease of the number of formal jobs, workers have sought alternatives to unemployment, among them the organization of workers cooperatives. This monograph aims at studying the founding principles of cooperatives, the legislation on this form of work organization, and the preservation of the guarantees assured to the worker by the legislator. The paper also focuses on the frauds to the labor law, the using of workers cooperatives as a means to obtain cheaper costs of production, disrespecting the workers interests. The paper is composed of four chapters and a concluding section. The first chapter deals with the industrial revolution and its impact on the workers lifes. In the second chapter, the focus is on the creation of workers cooperatives, its principles, characteristics and peculiarities. The third chapter examines the problem of fraud in workers cooperatives, or the cases the association is not created to the self-improvement of the working people, but just to cut the labor costs. The forth chapter presents the jurisprudence regarding the theme. Finally, the conclusion collects all the arguments, in order to help understanding